Caroline,

Thank you for your suggestion. That put me on the right track of reading about WIN32API and the GetKeyState function.

Elgin

>Elgin,
>Check out the GetKeyState API
>

>Declare short GetKeyState in Win32API integer nKey
>
>#define cnControlKey  0x11
>#define cnShiftKey	    0x10
>
>
>*-- Check out the Shift key state.
>llShiftKey = GetKeyState(cnShiftKey)<0
>*-- Check out the Control key state.
>llControlKey = GetKeyState(cnControlKey)<0
>

>HTH
>Caroline
>
>>I have a grid where in two of the columns I set the DblClick() method of the contained TextBox to a custom method on the form, ThisForm.FieldMerge().
>>
>>However I do not want the method to execute unless the user is holding down either the SHIFT or CTRL key, and depending on which of the two they are pressing while doubleclicking I want to do one of two CASE statements in my custom method.
>>
>>How do I detect which key is "held down" at the time of the DoubleClick. I've read the INKEY(), Keypress, LASTKEY(), etc stuff, but I'm not understanding what is needed.
>>
>>Thank you.